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  • re: interstate public transit:

    Have you ever taken a train? Amtrak is a fucking joy.

    Like genuinely a pleasant experience, and I don't just mean the joy of not getting dry fucked by sandpaper and barbed wire. Its really comfy, the scenery is often quite nice, there's decent WiFi and a bar, you can wander the train and fuck off to the bar if you get bored reading or whatever-not a great bar; beer and wine only no coctails, but we could fix that too.

    And if we actually cared about rail, especially passenger rail, the speed caps on that are so much fucking higher than you could possibly get with individual cars. Trips would be more frequent, too.

  • Dude its not worth the space (and maintenance, insurance, etc) of an entire car for two deliveries a year, thats fuvking insane, get over yourself. And people can include rental/delivery in cost of the item or wherever. Or we can gave full communism and they just do it.

    Plus, and I say this living in California; cargo bikes really do work fine most places. Even here (not all, but most) youre just being afraid of change, And it's cringe.

    I'm sorry, but the earths carrying capacity does not have room for your pathological american bullshit.

  • Doorbell send video to server on my desktop. Or wherever, I'll trade server space with a friend or something.

    Id probably use an esp32 board so: The software to view it live is already written. The software to automatically send it is, I think, already written; just need to configure desktop. The motion trigger is already written.

  • Mmmmmmm too many alternatives on desktop, and their integration of media collections isnt as good/extant, so I didn't mention, but oh my god the android version is such a perfect fucking app. One of those things that reminds me not everything has to be shit.

  • You really don't ever need a car, with good public transit. You can use the delivery van or rent something twice a year, I'm sure.

    Depending on geography, even delivery vans may be unnecessary; cargo bikes work pretty well on flat terrain.

    I haven't ever had a car. Not in a hypothetical world where we built public transit, but here, in the present/past real world. Most of the times this has been a problem were caused by other people using cars, and I don't consider becoming part of the problem to be a solution there. It can be done.

  • City costs are inflated by exploitative landlords.

    Suburb costs are subsidized by basically all the infrastructure for them; none of it pays for itself. Not the roads not the wiring not the water and sewer. Yes I know everywhere has roads, but suburbs demand a high standard of them and don't produce anything with them.

    Youre not being space efficient like a city, or (whatever degree of) self sufficient like the country, so everything is just car trips, any time you leave the house. Like in OP.

  • I can put together a diy ring with shit I have on my desk in about five minutes. It won't be pretty, but a printed case would solve that. Cost would be ~10$+battery and microsd card.

    And while I'm more capable than average here, I'm not much more capable than average.

  • I agree we do dog shit architecture, especially residential.

    We do not need more parking spaces though. We need trains. I'm sorry, but its too late to be putting more fucking cars on the road; even 'clean' electric ones.

  • "The system is broken! We must appeal to the system for help!"

    That's insane and absurd.

    The amount of effort required to make government do anything other than imperialism and genocide (and they will always half ass it) is always a substantial multiple of just doing it yourself. Stop begging, and letting their bullshit appropriate your desire for a better world.

  • This is true. Its one of my better arguments for revolution.

    This society is not for you, in the sense that even with all the efficiency of machinery/automation and economies og scale and expert craftsmen, its probably still less work for your clumsy not-a-boat-maker ass to look up a wikihow and build a boat from scratch than it is for you to 'earn' enough to buy a boat.

    Its less work and expense to grow food from scratch to feed starving kids in your community than it is to lobby the government to use food that would have been thrown away to feed kids.

    And I don't know if any random stranger would make good decisions that wouldn't get lots of people killed, but making any random dipshit off the street supreme emperor of earth, you wouldn't get, on average, worse decisions than our current oligarchs. Like, basically anyone could do better. Maybe not good enough; we've got some apocalypses on the horizon, but at least not worse. And I think we could do better than random dipshit emperor if we put our anything to it.